Post-Election Audit Report: Incremental Improvement – New Integrity Concern

Citizen observation and analysis shows some improvements along with a newly uncovered problem with the random selection process...We conclude that August post-election audits still do not inspire confidence because of:

• failure in the integrity of the random district selection process,
• lack of standards for determining need for further investigation of discrepancies,
• weaknesses in the ballot chain of custody, and
• lack of, consistency, reliability, and transparency in the conduct of the audit.

the list of polling districts for the random audit drawing was missing some districts and is otherwise inaccurate and ambiguous. The integrity of the audit requires an accurate list of districts that is verifiable by the public. We have extended our recommendations to the Legislature to include an efficient fix to this problem.